16496 · data sonification · terrafret
The Earth Plays the Piano
A live feed of every earthquake on the planet in the last hour, from the U.S. Geological Survey. Each quake sounds one phrase of Karel’s real recording — bigger and deeper for stronger tremors, panned by longitude, drawn from a different moment of the take by latitude.
Press start and the planet begins to play. New quakes arrive every sixty seconds; each becomes a phrase of the piano. Sit with it — the map slowly draws the last hour of the Earth.
registers · Interplay · Isolation · Snowflake